- Title: A Simple Story
- Author: Elizabeth Inchbald
- Year Published: 1791/this edition 1988 (Oxford University Press)
- Year Purchased: 2006
- Source: A now-defunct Buffalo, New York bookstore
- About: An audacious yet thoughtful novel by a truly trailblazing female writer, ‘A Simple Story’ should be read by anyone claiming an interest in women’s history or fine literature.
- Motivation: See above. Elizabeth Inchbald, a woman writing at a time when that was hardly a blessing, needs to be rediscovered. I squealed when I saw this book sitting in the stall. This edition also boasts a lovely Vigee Le Brun reproduction on the front cover.
- Times Read: 1
- Random Excerpt/Page 1: “It is said, a book should be read with the same spirit with which it has been written. In that case, fatal must be the reception of this-for the writer frankly avows, that during the time she has been writing it, she has suffered every quality and degree of weariness and lassitude, into which no other employment could have betrayed her.”
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